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Listing Education On Your Resume and Personal Branding

We have looked at our professional experience and addressing it on a resume or personal branding site.  In this episode, we look at the other major area of our background and how to handle listing education.  Degrees are easy.  However, there are also many different forms of knowledge that we want to include. Partial Diploma and Post Degree Work We first look at the cases where we have done work in pursuing a degree.  These situations arise from life getting in the way or when we are in progress towards a goal.  The work has been done (to some extent), so do not be afraid to list it.  Yes, there is more work to be done before graduation.  On the... Read more

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Waterfall and Agile – A comparison of two methodologies

The two most popular SDLC methodologies of the last few decades are arguably Waterfall and Agile.  Therefore, we have plenty of examples of projects run via one or the other.  Likewise, it is valuable for us to review each of these and examine where each may be a good fit.  In this presentation, we examine both and then compare and contrast them. Waterfall and Agile Deep Dive The source of this presentation is a Bootcamp class that we re-purposed for the mentor sessions.  Thus, we start from scratch and build up to a comparison of these two popular approaches.  It may surprise you that there are strong and valid arguments for and against each methodology. The Mentor-Mastermind Group This series... Read more

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Conferences As Professional Experience – A Full Resume

There countless things we do during our careers that are easy to forget yet make us better.  In this episode, we look at counting conferences as professional experience.  We can easily overlook these valuable times spent in an immersive few days.  However, that would be a mistake on our part.  Here are some things to consider as you add conference attendance to your resume or brand. A Known Quantity The value in certifications and degrees is that there is a minimum of information we get from them.  These set a bar of our knowledge or experience.  A conference can do the same thing.  We will at least be exposed to the ideas covered in presentations, and those have a cumulative... Read more

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Your Personal Portfolio – Work and References On Your Branding Site

We talked about a personal brand website.  In this episode, we focus on the personal portfolio.  This content is work examples, deliverables, and possibly even applications.  The bonus for this form of delivery is that your reader can experience the content rather than read it.  Let’s look at some ways to make this content sing and avoid hitting sour notes. Keep Their Attention We need to start with a warning.  It is easy to provide tons of links in your content on the web.  These may take the user to a website you built or documents they can read.  Whatever the goal, keep the main problem we are solving in mind.  You should keep the reader in the context of... Read more

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Your Personal Branding Website – Advertise Yourself On The Web

All of us should have a personal branding website of some sort.  This goal can be achieved through a blog site, a web site that displays our portfolio, or a page on LinkedIn.  Whichever approach we take, there is the information we should include the stuff we can avoid.  This site tells our story and should do so in the way we want to tell it.  When you create this material, do not be shy or humble.  This content should impress all who read it.  Your career may depend on it. Theft Is The Highest Form Of Flattery The Internet is full of stolen ideas.  Take a look at popular sites, and you will see the same designs over and... Read more

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Work Examples, Portfolios, And Showing Off Your Deliverables

A frustrating part of my education was a need to show my work.  I always wanted to get to the answer, and showing work slowed me down.  However, work examples are an important part of our application process for a job or project.  Potential employers can learn a lot from the deliverables we have produced.  Therefore, we must present that content in a way that is easy to read and promotes our personal brand Show Off Your Skills The first thing to consider in building portfolio material is what you want to say.  There is a story around your career, so own that narrative.  Select complex problems solved and the technologies you enjoy to craft that story.  We produce a... Read more